Very Interesting...

[tcepsa]

Inspired by a friend, I decided to try an experiment today. At lunch, I drank three glasses of Mountain Dew. It's been a little over two hours, and so far I haven't been feeling jittery or hyper... if anything, I've been concentrating better (I reviewed a 7-ish page document without checking my e-mail or LJ once--highly unusual ;)

I realize that that's hardly a large enough data set for it to be statistically significant, but I'm very tempted to do further research into the results of caffeine on me.

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[tcepsa.livejournal.com]

~nods~ The explanation of the 'why' doesn't really seem to fit with my experience yesterday, but I don't have any better explanation either... [tangent] a book that I am reading talks about how different chemicals tend to use different pathways in the brains of extroverts than in introverts (haven't yet followed up on the studies to find out details). It seems like a similar situation may be the reason for the different reactions to things that have been traditionally considered stimulants. Whether that's actually the case or not I've no idea, but I'd very much like to know more as well if there is any research out there that examines this. (If not, it seems like it would make a brilliant Ph. D. thesis for someone ~grin~)[/tangent]

The powdered caffeine pills sounds like a very good plan (I knew there was a reason I needed a mortar-and-pestle ^_^). I'm also looking for caffeinated teas that I can enjoy without sugaring them; unfortunately it looks like both the Egyptian Licorice and the Smoky Tea are decaf. Oh the irony. But that doesn't mean that I couldn't recaffeinate them with crushed pills as you suggested ^_^

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

If you have an appropriate scale I'll give you a jar of caffeine powder. I don't know why I got 2; at this rate I'll never finish the first one.

[tcepsa.livejournal.com]

I do not currently have such a scale, but I can probably get one and I'd be happy to relieve you of your extra caffeine ^_^